The United Nations agencies dealing with global refugee and migration issues today expressed the hope that the United States will continue its strong leadership role and long tradition of protecting t...
Briefing the Security Council on the situation in Somalia, the United Nations envoy for the country noted today that the recently concluded election was a “mirror” to Somalis, showing them the goo...
The international pledge to eradicate a devastating livestock disease affecting mostly sheep and goats has taken on new urgency in the wake of a mass die-off of a rare Mongolian antelope, according to...
This month Greenpeace released our latest analysis (fifth and counting) of which major internet companies are leading the charge to build a renewably powered internet - and which ones are lagging behi...
Displaced residents of Syria's war-ravaged city seek employment as a first step towards returning to normal life.
We’ve launched a new campaign to defend the Amazon Reef, a unique and largely unknown biome that may be soon threatened by oil explorationIn the far north of Brazil, where the Amazon River meets the...
Last week, I arrived in Davos for my first World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos meeting unsure of what I was going to find. I was preoccupied with the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President and th...
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Serbian authorities, together with UNHCR and partners, step up efforts to extend capacity in emergency shelters for hundreds sleeping rough.
Several thousand people have returned to the Gambia since ex-president Yahya Jammeh ceded power.
Last week, Punjab province in Pakistan introduced rotavirus vaccine into its routine childhood immunization program. This is such a major step forward for our global goal of reducing rotavirus mortali...
European Commission - Press release Brussels, 19 January 2017 EU signs €65 million grant with Zambia to improve access to energy This programme is expected to provide access to reliable, clean and a...
En 2015, economías desarrolladas como Alemania, Estados Unidos y Japón, lideraron el mundo de la exportación de bienes de alta tecnología, incluidos los de las industrias aeroespacial, informátic...
También dispobible en: English La primera infancia es un elemento fundamental para la actual fuerza laboral productiva, así como para el éxito futuro de las naciones. Foto: Arne Hoel/Banco Mundial...
MAIDUGURI, north-east Nigeria, 30 December, 2016 – Just for a moment, Maimune could forget about her problems. It’s ‘Fun Day’ for children at Dalori camp for people who fled their homes becaus...
ALEPPO, Syrian Arab Republic, 29 December 2016 – For the families who fled the fighting in Aleppo city, the arduous journey was full of chaos and horror. Terrified and alone, many of the children ar...
FALLUJAH, Iraq, 27 December 2016 – The walls of Fallujah are scarred with bullet holes. Six months ago, 85,000 people fled the city as bombs fell on their houses in the fight to retake the city. Man...
European Commission - Press release Brussels, 20 December 2016 Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, signed financing agreements with Kenya, together with Kenya's P...
European Commission - Fact Sheet Brussels, 15 December 2016 A support package worth €470 million will underpin reform and state-building efforts in various sectors - education, nutrition, food secur...
Ukraine said it planned to confiscate $290 million of assets believed to be stolen through corruption in 2016. So far they’ve recovered and returned to state budget just $5,683. While that’s a tin...
The piece talks about how closing gender gaps in agriculture and investing in smallholder women farmers can have a profound impact on the achievement of SDG goals.
Director of Postsecondary Success, Dan Greenstein, reflects on the recent U.S. elections and discusses what they mean for higher education.
The tension between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has never been greater than this year, when WADA recommended a ban on all Russian athletes from pa...
Opening up government data to fight corruption has been a stated aim for many Open Government Partnership members. When data is open by default information is easier to work with, investigate, underst...
En 2015, Canadá y el BID reflejan años de colaboración
En Vila Castelo, una aldea en el estado Pará en Brasil, las mujeres son pescadoras y aprenden a ser microempresarias con apoyo del BID.
La mujer lidera la transformación del municipio colombiano de Apartadó tras años de violencia.
Expand Malcoal mine in Kayelekera. The open-pit coal mine is among the four largest coal mines in the country and is located on the back of a mountain, close to a river. Malcoal was reported to have c...
(Rangoon) – Burma’s government should act to end the prosecution of peaceful critics in violation of their right to free speech, Human Rights Watch said today. The National League for Democracy (N...
(Washington, DC) – The two executive actions, on immigration and border policy, that United States President Donald Trump signed on January 25, 2017, will severely harm millions of immigrants and US...